Artist Statement
My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural ...

Artist Statement
I work exclusively with landscape in my oil on canvas paintings, using that theme as a platform to explore new ways of representing space and form. I am also interested in using psychological content and color to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on ...

Centerpiece
Multiple Leaf Print
Leaf Relief
Pile of Maples
Ginkgo Leaf Circle
Artist Statement
In 2007, while walking home from my studio on a rainy Fall day and looking down at sidewalks covered with leaves, it occurred to me that the damp, resilient surface of a recently fallen leaf might be able to hold the image ...

Leah Oates, Transitory Space, Beijing, China, color photography, 2008-09
Artist Statement
Of human life time is a point, and the substance is in flux...and what belongs to the soul is dream and vapor....
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
The work I create first originates as a response to overlooked space that is in a continual ...

The Fowlers Trap Tangled with the Rabbit Holes
The Shortest Distance Between Two Kindred Souls Is Love
Wormholes in a Tree
Artist Statement
Big Dreams focuses around the idea that humankind shares a sort of imagery bank; elementary ideas from the beginning of time or archetypes as described by Carl Jung. With that said, ...

Good Morning Universe, 8x9.5', 2009
Brave New World, 8x9' 2008
Broken World, 8x9', 2008
Stream, 10x10', 2008
Artist Statement
I am drawn to everyday objects that are often overlooked or discarded. Using a wide range of disciplines, I transform the materials into small works. With a modern primitive style I balance the positive and negative ...

'Bear Lithia,' 2009, oil, iridescence, and gold leaf on linen, 48'x72'
'Passing,' 2009, oil on linen, 46'x74'
'Five Miles Out,' 2009, oil and gold leaf on canvas over panel, 20'x36'
Artist Statement
When I moved to Brooklyn from Virginia I started making these dark landscape paintings lit in strange ways. When I started the ...